Understanding that Swift-boating is tell the uncomfortable truth about someone, it seems that John Kerry is once again victim to that terrible calumny.

John Kerry appears to have plagiarized parts of his 1971 Senate testimony, notably a line that was again used in 2004 in the context of the Iraq reconstruction.

We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to dies in Vietnam? How do ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

John Boyle, a Vietnam-era veteran notes for Greyhawk that everytime he hears this, he's reminded of a VC propaganda pamphlet his squad found during the war. Here's the front.

...and here's the back. Note the final sentence.

"Do try to avoid the unfortunate fate of the last G.I. killed in this war"

More at the ">Mudville Gazette, including an account of the last G.I. killed in Vietnam.

Now I suppose it could be a mere coincidence, afterall, great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ.